The
Star Wars Galaxies Forums announce that 12 servers are being shut down
for SOE's Star Wars MMORPG, which represent just under half of the game's 25
servers (thanks
MMORPG.com). The free character transfer serviced offered earlier
this year has been successful at increasing the population on the 13 servers
that will remain, but this has left the 12 servers being closed even more
desolate, and they say new character creation on the impacted servers is no
longer allowed as of today, and remaining characters are being given the chance
to migrate to one of the better populated servers right until their old homes
are shut down on Thursday, October 15, 2009, at 4:40 PM Pacific Time. Here are
the 12 severs being closed next month, which range from the inappropriate
(Intrepid) to the ironic (Wanderhome):